Chimpanzees Quotes · Page 2

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

— Jane Goodall

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

— Frans de Waal

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

— Frans de Waal

Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.

— Neal Barnard

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

— Jane Goodall

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

— Frans de Waal

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

— Andy Dunn

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

— Jane Goodall

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a…

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a…

— Frans de Waal

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them…

— Jane Goodall

“It is believed that 6 million years ago, a female ape gave birth to two daughters – one became the ancestor of…

— Read trepreneur

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human…

— Carl Sagan

I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies…

— Frans de Waal

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand…

— Bob Waterston

“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true…

— Frans de Waal

Jane Goodall is my idol and someone I have always looked up to for the amazing work she has done with chimpanzees.…

— Katie Cleary

Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known;…

— Jane Goodall

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than…

— Anonymous

“My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees…

— Katherine Applegate

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…

— Peter Singer

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?…

— Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

— Nicki Minaj

“For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

— Frans de Waal

“I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...”

— Jonathan Dunne

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

— Jaco Pastorius

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

— David A. Noebel

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

— Woody Harrelson

I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one

— Candice Bergen

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

— Ted Turner

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

— Hans Rosling

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

— Frans de Waal

A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.

— Frans de Waal

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.

— Wolfgang Kohler

The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives,…

— Mark Stoneking

We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves.…

— Alison Jolly